Iron Pen Poetry

“Luci Shaw is a legend” —Christianity TodayThis captivating collection of poems by beloved author Luci Shaw, reflects on daily ideas and activities...

Winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, and New York Times bestselling author Nikki Grimes introduces Glory, Too, a soul-stirring collection of poe...

Featuring 23 contemporary Catholic poets, from Julia Alvarez and Carolyn Forché to Timothy Murphy and Franz Wright, this anthology is an essential ...

Featuring 23 contemporary Catholic poets, from Julia Alvarez and Carolyn Forché to Timothy Murphy and Franz Wright, this anthology is an essential ...

A new collection of poems by Palestinian-American Catholic poet Andrew Calis, Which Seeds Will Grow? ​finds hope in the Holy Land. Grappling with ...

An imagined conversation with Dante Alighieri written in response to the 700th anniversary of Dante’s death by fellow Catholic poet, lover and mas...

From the pen of beloved poet Luci Shaw comes a new collection that celebrates inspired creativity as an antidote to chaos.The poet’s own words best...

New poetry from Scott Cairns on containing the uncontainableOften, when speaking of what he has called the poetic operation of language, Scott Cair...

A new collection from Sister Sharon Hunter, CJ celebrating the people and circumstances who help make us what we are. "For several months in 2020, ...

In his famed treatise Either/Or, Christian existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard suggests that our basic human condition is one of choice an...

A new collection from the best and most prolific poets published in the Christian Century over the past twenty-five years. The 34 poets whose work ...

Holy Sparks is a collection of poems grounded in a belief in the kinship between the cosmos and its Creator. Biophilic imagery is used throughout t...

Love Holds You is a collection of poetry and devotions from beloved author Christine Valters Paintner. Amid the daily grind, the pain and loss, th...

A posthumous collection of poems on the beauty of the seasons, creation, life and death, from beloved poet Catherine de Vinck.In the words of the F...

Winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts!"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades.” —Joseph Bottum, ...

Winner of the 2023 Christianity Book Award — Culture & The Arts!"One of the best, and least expected, anthologies in decades.” —Joseph Bottum, ...

"The word 'angel' means 'messenger' and the title poem of this book, 'Angels Everywhere,' presents the idea that what I often glimpse is a flicker ...

This collection of poems begins in the growing darkness of November, stretches through Advent and the seasons leading to Easter and to Pentecost, a...

Winner of the 2023 Illumination Book Awards Winner of the 2022 International Book Awards Third Place 2023 Catholic Media Association's Book AwardsB...

Raising the Sparks, Jennifer Wallace’s sixth poetry collection, is inspired by the alignment of Christian and Judaic traditions. The idea of raisin...

Poems of pain and forgiveness, for those who struggle to find healing from a childhood marked by addictionTo Shatter Glass is essentially a memoir ...

"Glory in the Margins is a gift and a challenge: a collection that could be well-worn by pastors and prisoners, could be healing in both a hospital...

“Cornered by the Dark is a triumph.” —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoW. H. Auden, Jorge Luis Borges, Howard Thurman, Jul...